bride : Idioms & Phrases


Bride of the sea

  • the city of Venice.
Webster 1913

bride price

  • noun money or property given (in some societies) by the bridegroom to the family of his bride
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bride's bonnet

  • noun plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks; Alaska to California and east to Oregon and Montana
    queen's cup; Clintonia uniflora.
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bride-ale

Bride"-ale` noun
Etymology
See Bridal.
Definitions
  1. A rustic wedding feast; a bridal. See Ale.
    The man that 's bid to bride-ale, if he ha' cake, And drink enough, he need not fear his stake. B. Jonson.
Webster 1913

bride-gift

  • noun a wedding present to the bride
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bride-to-be

  • noun a woman who is engaged to be married
    fiancee.
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Mourning bride

  • (Bot.), a garden flower (Scabiosa atropurpurea) with dark purple or crimson flowers in flattened heads.
Webster 1913

saint bride

  • noun Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523)
    St. Brigid; Bridget; St. Bridget; Brigid; Saint Bridget; Saint Brigid; Bride; Saint Bride.
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st. bride

  • noun Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523)
    St. Brigid; Bridget; St. Bridget; Brigid; Saint Bridget; Saint Brigid; Bride; Saint Bride.
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war bride

  • noun bride of a serviceman during wartime
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